నాలుగు దశాబ్దాల పాటు జర్నలిస్టుగా, రాజకీయ విశ్లేషకునిగా సేవలందించి సమాజ హితం కోసం పాటుపడిన గోశాల ప్రసాద్ మృతి విచారకరం. గత ప్రభుత్వ విధ్వంసకర పాలనపై దైర్యంగా గళమెత్తిన ప్రసాద్ లోతైన విశ్లేషణలతో తనదైన ముద్ర వేస్తూ ప్రజాపక్షాన పనిచేసారు. ఆయన ఆత్మకు శాంతి చేకూరాలని ప్రార్ధిస్తూ... వారి కుటుంబ సభ్యులకు ప్రగాఢ సానుభూతిని తెలియజేస్తున్నాను.
A life need not be extraordinary to be meaningful.
In an age obsessed with attention, that may be the most radical idea of all. Don’t fool yourself into thinking someone else’s curated life is the standard by which yours should be judged.
This essay stayed with me long after I finished reading it.
#Thoughts #Goodreads
A reminder about why meaningful changes don't stick unless we revisit and practice them. New patterns become a part of our nature only through repeated reflection otherwise we fall back into our old habits.
https://t.co/nReJWzXH2X
Skills that have nothing to do with money but are worth dedicating an immense amount of practice to:
- Charisma
- Metacognition
- Critical thinking
- Sitting with discomfort
- Articulating what you believe and why
- Changing your beliefs when presented with new information
Almost nobody actually practices these and it shows.
“I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.”
Happy 55th birthday to one of the greatest humans to walk on this planet. @elonmusk
You are truly an inspiration to me and maybe some part of the humanity!
My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress today looks at the larger question prompted by the recent Opposition party splits: what is politics for? I have always assumed that one enters politics to pursue one’s vision of a “better India” according to the values and principles one is prepared to fight for. If today politics is merely about selling oneself to the highest bidder, divorced from any sense of larger purpose than greater comforts for oneself, then what’s our entire parliamentary system worth?
A (gentle) shout-out to Objective Journalism: The same Jay Mazoomdaar broke the Robert Vadra land scam in Express 12 years ago, and last year, called out Trump’s lie about USAID funding Indian elections.